Eco-Economy Indicators: WATER RESOURCES - World's Water Resources Face Mounting PressureAmu Darya in Central Asia and the Colorado in the southwestern United States are among the world’s rivers that run dry for at least part of the year. Water from the AmuDarya ... two in the late 1980s. While the South Aral Sea, intermittently fed by the weakened AmuDarya, will likely never recover, recent efforts to revitalize the North Aral Sea have raised water ... www.earth-policy.org

Did you know?The flow of AmuDarya and Syr Darya Rivers in Central Asia that once fed the Aral Sea which borders Kazakhstan and ... www.edugreen.teri.res.in

EJF: The Aral Sea CrisisAmu Darya and the Syr Darya. Together these giant waterways once carried more water than the Nile. But because ... remain. These unique riparian communities of poplar, willow, oleaster, and reeds once stretched along the AmuDarya covering an estimated a 100,000 hectares. Populated by 576 plant species, including 29 ... ejfoundation.org

Oxus RiverIts present-day name is the AmuDarya (or Amu river) and its course can be traced in any atlas. ... Likewise, the Oxus' companion river the Jaxartes (now known as the Syr Darya) used to shift its banks up to a hundred yards sideways ... back to about 1575 AD: both Jaxartes and Oxus rivers (the Syr Darya and AmuDarya) run to the Aral Sea, as they do today. Around 1575, ... www.iras.ucalgary.ca

Activities - Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.comAral Sea? The Aral Sea region is big cotton farming country. The AmuDarya and Syr Darya rivers flow through cotton farmland into the sea. In the 1950s, the Soviet government ... nationalgeographic.com

Hsien-tsang: Buddhist Records of the Western CountriesOxus or Amu-darya, on whose shores were lapis mines of old). Lastly, from the north flows the Si ... crystal lion. The Si-to could be the Yarkand river; it could be the Syr-darya or Jaxartes; it could be the Silis of the ancients, or the Side river mentioned ... www.iras.ucalgary.ca